Improvement in frubt-boxes



J J. PHILBRIGK. Fruit-B0X.`

No. 207,440. Patemed Aug. 27,1878

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JASPER J. `llIILlRIClQ OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN FRUlT-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,40, dated Augusti7, 1878; application filed June 1,y 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JASPER J. PHILBRICK, of Cleveland, in the county ofCuyahogaand State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements inFruitfBoxes, of which the following is a description, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification,in Which- Figure 1 is a view of an extended blank or strip of materialof which the sides of the box are made. Fig. 2 is a view of `an extendedblank of which the bottom of the box is made. Fig. 3 represents anextended view of a blank for the cover of thebox. Fig. 4 is aperspective view of a box. Fig: 5 is a transverse vertical section.Figs. 6 and 7 are side views of the box.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

rIhis invention relates to a new and novel inode of constructing aboxfor holding small fruits and other light small articles. To this end isused scale-board or paper. Wood, however, is preferred. The sides of thebox are made of a single piece or blank of scaleboard, which istransversely scored, that it may bend easily to form the corners. Saidscores are four in number, thereby laying out the blank into ive equalsections. In the two end and middle sections are openings or slots toreceive the tucks of the cover and bottom, and whereby they aresecuredto the sides, and the sides bound together substantially asfollows, which is a more full and complete description thereof.

In -the drawings, A represents the blank above alluded to, which, `asaforesaid, may be of scale-board or of paper. The broken lines.

B indicate'the scores or incisions made trans- Y versely therein .toform the four vertical corners of the box. Said scores divide the blankinto five equal sections, 1 2 3 4 5. In section r 1 is cut an opening,B, from each side of which projects a tongue, a, theV purpose of whichwill .presently be shown.

` F, Fig. 2, represents the piece for the bottom 0f the box, and thedotted lines b indicate the scores'or incisions for bending the piece toform corners. At each end of the piece is a tag, Gr and H, respectively,each of which is provided with a pair of shoulders, c d, the use ofwhich will hereinafter be shown.

F', Fig. 3, represents the piece for the cover, 'which is also scored,as indicated by the broken lines e, for forming corners. At each end ofsaid piece is a'tag, I. Said cover and bottom are each of a single pieceof material and a little narrower than the width of the box.

The manner of putting the above-described pieces of material together toform a box is as follows: The blankAfor the sides is bentalon g thescores B, which make the four upright corners of the box.' The ends land 5 are lapped upon each other, the end 45 being on the outside,thereby making two thicknesses on one side of the box, as shown in Figs.4 and 5, whereas the other three sides are of one thickness only. 4

The blank A, when bent, and the ends lapped upon each other, brings thetuck-openings D E and BO in direct relation to each other on one sideofthe box, and the tuek-openin gs B C of section 3 of thel blank, on theopposite side. The bottom piece is now taken and bent at right anglesalong the dotted lines b. The tag G is then inserted inthe slot C ofsection 3, (oneside of the box,) passing it inside ofthe loop J andupward through the opening B' to the outside ofthe box, as shown in Fig.7. In like manner the tag E is inserted in the slots C and E of sectionsl and 5, passing it inside the loops J and K, thence through the openingabove the loops to the outside of the sections, section 5 being theouter one forming that side of the box.

The piece thus tagged to the sides forms the bottom of the box, as seenin Fig. 7 and which is retained in its connection therewith by thetongues a, above alluded to, upon which the shoulders c and d of thetags, respectively,r hang, as shown in Fig. 7. It will be obvious thatso long as the tongues engage the shoulders of the tags the bottomcannot drop olf, but will be held firmly. and securely in itsconnections with the sides of the box.

On inserting the tag under the loop the tendency will be to force theloop outward, so that the tag may lie lat against the side of the box,and therefore back from the tongues; hence the shoulders of the tagssometimes may not fully lodge upon the tongues unless said tongues arepressed slightly outward toward the tag. This outward pressure will beapplied-on filling the box with fruit. The pressure thereof upon thetongues will press them so far loutward that the shoulders of the tagwill en gage them and prevent the bottom from falling off. Ordinarily,the tags will be bent a little inward by the pressure of the loops uponthem, so that an engagement of the shoulders 4 with the tongues willtake place, though the box may be empty.

The top or cover F of the box is placed on by inserting one of the tagsI thereof under the loop J, Fig. 6, and the other under the loop K ofsection 5, as shown in Fig. 4. This not onlyT secures the cover to thebox, but at the same time it binds the sides firmly together. Also, thetags of the cover, being on the outside of the tags of the bottom, willconfine the shoulders thereof in their engagement with the tongues ahence they cannot be easily displaced by the weight and pressure of thefruit that the box may contain.

The width of the tag is such as to nearly ill the tag-openings, therebylocking the two sides 1 and 5 firmly together, so that they cannot pullapart laterally. It will be observed that the cover and the bottom ofthe box are not so Wide as the box; hence there is left a space alongeach side of the bottom and cover, as seen at n, Fig. 4. Said spaces oropenings allow a free passage of air to the fruit for ventilation,thereby preventing it from becoming moldy. t

What I claim as invention, and desire sisting of three pieces, one ofwhich being an oblong strip, having parallel sides and scored at rightangles to said sides to admit of the piece being bent to form the foursides'of the box, and having tuck-openings B C, B' C', and D E, andtongues a, to receive and hold the tags of the top and bottom of thebox, said bottom consisting of a piece or blank having parallel sidesand scored to form the tags, and provided with shoulders c d, and thepiece or blank for the cover also having parallel sides andv scored toform the tags Gr and H, substantially as described. v t v 2. In blanksfor boxes, the arrangement of the openings D E and B G, with tongues aupon one side of the box and openings B' C and tongues a on the oppositeside thereof, with loop between said openings in combination with theshouldered tags G of the bottoni piece, extending respectively throughthe openings and under the loops on each side for holding the lappeden'ds of the side piece together and the bottom in place, in the mannersubstantially as described.

, 3. An improved fruit-box consisting of the blank A, provided withtuck-openings B C,

B C', and D E, having tongues and loops J J', bottom F, provided withshouldered tags, and cover F', having tags I, constructed in the mannersubstantially as described, and for the purpose specified. n JASPER J.PHILBRICK.

Witnesses:

J. H. BURRIDGE, W. H. BURRIDGE.

